Kindara, a revolutionary application created by Katherine Bicknell and William Sacks (and Graduates of the New York Founder Institute), has been listed as a top application by Justdakhila in the article, "Must Have Apps for Fertility and Ovulation Check". This groundbreaking application helps women understand their ovulation timing, cervical fluid timing, temperatures, and more. It just as perfect and helpful; for women who are trying to get pregnant as well as women who are not trying to get pregnant.
Kindara works based on the Fertility Awareness Method. This method of fertility awareness is concerned with monitoring the body's natural signs, changes in temperature or fluids etc, that will indicate how fertile a person is. The fact of the matter is, that women are only fertile for a few days out of every month. The idea behind Kindara is that if you can accurately track these fertility windows, you could either get pregnant or use the information to avoid pregnancy without having to take the time to get and take birth control pills. The application works in tandem with a thermometer that feeds the information back to the application which analyzes the input information from the thermometer and gives users accurate data regarding the time of the month they can expect to be at the peak of their fertility.
The information Kindara provides users is life changing. Women and couples all over the world who have been trying to conceive children now have a way to track the best times of the month for conception. However, the interesting facet of Kindara's story is that it was primarily born out of a desire to offer a pill-less birth control alternative to young women.
Katherine Bicknell, a Kindara founder, grew interested in tracking her menstrual cycles when she finally decided she did not want to be on birth control pills anymore which she had been on since the age of 11. The reason Bicknell was on these pills from such an early age was that she had inconsistent periods, and the only solution doctors ever offered her were birth control pills.
Why did Bicknell want to be off of the pills? Birth control pills are synthetic hormones, and there are a number of dangerous side-effects from having such high levels of hormones present in the body. These dangers are heightened when alcohol and cigarettes are also consumed. While neither of those activities are necessarily good for the body either, the fact of the matter is that a lot of young women, especially college age women, will drink and maybe smoke.
Currently, nearly one million women are using Kindara, and those numbers only look to increase as the app continues to improve and offer new features and compatible devices such as their bluetooth-connected basal thermometer. Kindara co-founder and Bicknell's husband Will Sacks has a big vision for the future of the app. He says,
Our vision is that eventually, a woman will have a Kindara account from before she gets her first period, through avoiding getting pregnant, through having a baby, and all the way through menopause. It will be a lifetime record of her reproductive health."
Kindara is one of the few fertility apps that has received a lot of interest from investors. The company raised over 5.3 million dollars in seed funding to help make this application and supported technologies a reality. Currently, there is a huge market for wearable technology, and health related apps. Kindara has a good grasp on a major issue that affects at the bare minimum half of the population under the age of 45, and with only one million women currently using the application there is a lot of potential for continued growth.
